Fergal Kinney
, March 1st, 2021 09:31
On the 20th anniversary of their one and only studio album, Any Other City, Fergal Kinney speaks to Life Without Buildings about their short productive life and their incredibly long tail
In pop music, and the cottage industry set up to auto-mythologise it, there’s little premium higher than the small coterie of bands whose skimpy discographies are inverse to their XXL influence – Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Young Marble Giants, Slint, Television. You’ll notice that all of the above are indie or alternative acts. Unless from early death, you’ll find little of this mythologising in soul or in jazz. What can we learn from this? The early split being the logical end point of indie s cult of detachment?
ATOM & HIS PACKAGE - BOAT OF A CAR (THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS PODCAST)
Atom & His Package guested on a new episode of Punknews contributor Greg Simpson s They Might Be Giants podcast This Might Be A Podcast, and in doing so, he also covered their song Boat of Car. Atom and TMBG are both masters of quirk, so it s no surprise that Atom was a good fit for this.
Orange county ska-pop-punks Bite Me Bambi released their debut EP
Hurry Up and Wait today (and we included it on our ska year-end list). The EP includes all of the band s previous singles, and the just-released This Love Is Dead, which finds Bite Me Bambi exploring their darker minor-key side (with a bridge that seems to nod at House of the Rising Sun ). It comes with a
Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan cover Robert Wyatt s Sea Song w/ Mick Turner (listen) brooklynvegan.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brooklynvegan.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.